Conferenza FilMat 2026: Philosophy of Mathematics – Applicability, Ontology and Reasoning
9 - 11 settembre 2026
Fifth International Conference of the Italian Network for the Philosophy of Mathematics - FilMat
- Online su Microsoft Teams e in presenza : Sala Rossa, Via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna
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Programma
Wednesday, 9 September
08:45–09:15 Registration
09:15–09:30 Welcome
09:30–10:30 [Keynote] Chris Pincock — Ohio State University
Do Mathematical Objects Have Natures?
10:30–11:10 Rami Jreige — University of Bristol
From Physics to Mathematics: Abstraction and Converse Applicability in Witten’s Chern-Simons Theory
11:10–11:40 Coffee break
11:40–12:20 Pietro Brocci — Scuola Normale Superiore, and Pablo Dopico — University of Konstanz
On Compositional Truth and Predicativity: Revisiting Halbach’s Conjecture
12:20–13:00 Maria Beatrice Buonaguidi — King’s College London
Closed Classes and Hyperuniverses
13:00–14:30 Lunch
14:30–15:30 [Keynote] Deborah Kant — Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Foundational Role of Set Theory and Set-Theoretic Pluralism
15:30–16:10 Alessandro Giglia — University of Oslo
Against the Equivalence of Potentialist and Actualist Set Theories
16:10–16:40 Coffee break
16:40–17:20 Ludovica Conti — University of Vienna, and Leon Horsten — University of Konstanz
From Generic Reasoning to Arbitrary Abstract Objects
17:20–18:00 Silviu-Constantin Federovici — Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
Objectivity without Antecedent Determinacy: Brouwer on the Intuitionistic Continuum
18:00–18:40 Mary Elworth — IUSS Pavia
Reasoning in Mathematics Using Diagrams: Which Kinds of Knowledge?
Thursday, 10 September
09:00–10:00 [Keynote] Claudio Ternullo — University of Catania
Forms of Pluralism and the Future of Set Theory
10:00–10:40 Fernando Hurtado-Chaurand — Università della Svizzera Italiana
Parmenides and Zeno on the Discernibility of Continuous Parts
10:40–11:10 Coffee break
11:10–11:50 Nicola Bonatti — MCMP, LMU Munich
Counting, Minimality and the Natural Numbers
11:50–12:30 Simone Picenni — ILLC, University of Amsterdam
Conceptions of Sets and Classes in Class Theories with a Universal Set
12:30–14:00 Lunch
14:00–14:40 Lyra So — University of Amsterdam
Reviving Indefinite Extensibility in a World of Definite Sets
14:40–15:20 Nuno Maia — University of Salzburg
What Do Sets Say About Dependence?
15:20–15:50 Coffee break
15:50–16:30 Pietro Lampronti — LMU Munich & University of Manchester
Reductive Fundamentality, Abstractionism, and Metaphysics
16:30–17:10 Cristian Novelli — University of the Republic, Udelar
Between the Abstract and the Concrete: A Response to (Some of) the Problems of the Application of Mathematics in the Empirical Sciences
17:15–18:45 FilMat General Assembly
20:30 Conference Dinner
Friday, 11 September
09:30–10:30 [Keynote] Davide Rizza — University of East Anglia
Structure as a Mode of Operation
10:30–11:00 Coffee break
11:00–11:40 Davide Sutto — University of Oslo, and Neil Barton — National University of Singapore
Axiomatizing the Weak Iterative Conception of Set, Part 1: Constructible Level Theory
11:40–12:20 Tianyi Zheng — KU Leuven
The Puzzle of Inquiry in Distinctively Mathematical Explanation
12:20–12:30 Closing Remarks
Partner
Department of Philosophy, University of Bologna; Italian Network for the Philosophy of Mathematics (FilMat); Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (DLMPST); Società Italiana di Filosofia Analitica (SIFA); and Società Italiana di Logica e Filosofia delle Scienze (SILFS).
Chi interverrà
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Chris Pincock
Invited speaker
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Claudio Ternullo
Invited speaker
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Deborah Kant
Invited speaker
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Davide Rizza
Invited speaker
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Rami Jreige
Speaker
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Pietro Brocci
Speaker
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Maria Beatrice Buonaguidi
Maria Beatrice Buonaguidi
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Alessandro Giglia
Speaker
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Ludovica Conti
Speaker
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Silviu-Constantin Federovici
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Mary Elworth
Speaker
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Fernando Hurtado-Chaurand
Speaker
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Nicola Bonatti
Speaker
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Simone Picenni
Speaker
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Lyra So
Speaker
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Nuno Maia
Speaker
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Pietro Lampronti
Speaker
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Cristian Novelli
Speaker
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Davide Sutto
Speaker
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Tianyi Zheng
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